raptort Loc: Saginaw, MI

Just wanted to share my morning experience which proves again what the best camera is. My morning walk is in my local residential suburban neighborhood. Bright blue sky after yesterday’s flurries iced things up. Generally wildlife is at best squirrels and rabbits. My route takes me out on a 4-lane road with an elementary school on the other side. I had been mostly looking down to make sure I didn’t fall on the ice and finally switched to walk on the grass. I looked up to check how the kids were playing and there sitting on the top of a pole was a mature bald eagle. Kids playing, cars driving by but it didn’t seemed fazed in the least. As I approached just across the street I noticed the next pole down had a second mature eagle. Now on these walks I never carry my regular camera but I didn’t even have my IPhone with me. The sun behind me beautifully illuminating the white head and tail against the blue sky and I was close enough even an IPhone would have captured a nice picture. Now any day I see a bald eagle I consider to be a beautiful day but I proved again the old adage that the best camera is the one you have with you!

PixelStan77 Loc: Vermont/Chicago

You have a great visual memory.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Too bad. At least you have the memory in your camera of the mind.

One of the reasons I have a little old Panasonic pocket size zoom I got from Costco several years ago in my shirt pocket when I leave the house. That is also why I buy shirts with two pockets that zip, button or Velcro shut. Camera in the right pocket, notebook and pen in the left. I have carried a notebook and pen since elementary school. So about a 65 year habit. The camera in the other pocket is only about 10 years old. Though back in the 60s in Vietnam I had a little Olympus Pen 1/2 frame camera that rode in a cargo pocket of my jungle fatigues.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

Yep. I try to always have a camera at hand. It's not always possible but I try.

PHRubin Loc: Nashville TN USA

Now that I have a cell phone - I always have a camera when I go out, but I try to have the Panasonic DMC-ZS100 with me... If I remember... which isn't as sure as it once was

raptort Loc: Saginaw, MI

Absolutely! As I said “a beautiful day “!

raptort Loc: Saginaw, MI

I’m not one to carry my IPhone everywhere but I will try from now on.

raptort Loc: Saginaw, MI

Even the little Canon Powershot I just got my wife would have worked!!

raptort Loc: Saginaw, MI

Yes, my 7D and Sigma 150-600C would have been nice to have!

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

While I don't use my phone to take photos it is always with me, why? safety what happens if you fall or worse and no one is around, you don't have any chance at all to summons help. Now maybe you have no signal, but you won't know if you don't have the phone with you.

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Yesterday evening just after sundown, the sky was covered with some very dark clouds I saw a sundog, much more intense than any images I have seen, but damn the luck not a place to stop!! and the cameras were in the back of the van, just as well I may have been temped to stop in the roadway to shoot. By the time I found a place to get off the road it was gone!!! Oh well I'll have the image in my mind as long as it last . I was able to call my daughter and she got to see it from her front porch, she live on a hill that was about 75ft. higher than where I stopped.

mas24 Loc: Southern CA

I don't use my smartphone for photography. It has a front and back camera lens. As, stated above by a uhh member, I use my smartphone primarily for communications. I use a sports app, to check team sports scores, occasionally. I have a Sony pocket camera, that fits in my shirt or pants pocket. It has a tiny 20 megapixels sensor, and a focal range to 200mm. It takes amazing photos for what I paid for it. Less than $150. I bought it 4 years ago from Best Buy Store. Like Timex watches, it just keeps on ticking. Or clicking.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

Yours is a lesson I’ve learned and forgotten many times.

Ksocha Loc: Bethesda, MD

I carry the Ricoh GR III whenever I don’t carry something larger. I love it and the photos I don’t miss any more.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

When I leave the house my wallet is in my front pocket and my Sony HX 90 with a Zeiss 24-750 mm lens is firmly attached to my belt using a Nikon Coolpix S8100 camera case with magnetic closures. Never missed a shot yet.